Amazon Kindle Fire +
Brand | Amazon |
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Type | eBook Reader |
Type | Tablet |
The Kindle Fire is a mini tablet computer version of Amazon.com 's Kindle e-book reader. Announced on September 28, 2011, the Kindle Fire has a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and runs a forked version of Google 's Android operating system. The device—which includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle's e-books —was released to consumers in the United States on November 15, 2011. On September 7, 2012, upgrades to the device were announced with consumer availability to those European countries with a localized version of Amazon's website ( United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain ).